Confused thinking worthy of the people this fool identifies with

He is, however, quite right to say that the Frankfurt School “predates” the “rise” of fascism; but it emphatically does not pre-date fascist “thinking”. That’s another howler to add to the growing list of Pikeian pratfalls. He adds more muddled nonsense to his ill-considered “analysis” with his assumption that I am a Marxist, without one scintilla of proof to back up his feral thought processes. I am many things, but an adherent to that I am not. Get your facts straight, Nigel. Again.

Real scholars like Horkheimer, Adorno and Mancuse were Jews, which may or may not play a part in Nigel’s one-dimensional, heavily biased thinking. The School was of course anti-Nazi and was as such a target for persecution, resulting in the above scholars having to flee Nazi Germany. It is appropriate here to note that the anti-democracy Nazis provided many a hero and inspiration for today’s resurgent white supremacists and xenophobes; this clutch of deviants include the murdering rabble at Charlottesville and the EDL, an English far-right organisation that the proven anti-democrat Pike purports to identify with.

The rise of PC (which I confess to dislike, as it’s little more than Orwellian Newspeak) rests not with the Frankfurt School, but is rather more to do with the risible Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts” and the associated muddled thinking that precede them.

Further to this, In the early-to-mid 20th century, the phrase “politically correct” was used to describe strict adherence to a range of ideological orthodoxies. In 1934, the New York Times reported that Nazi Germany was granting reporting permits only to pure “Aryans”, whose opinions were “politically correct”. An ahistoricist like Mr. Pike would, of course, never allow this truth to influence his revisionist worldview.

Dr Frank